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Rina Zelenaya (real name — Ekaterina Vasilyevna Zelenaya; October 25 [November 7] 1901, Tashkent — April 1, 1991, Moscow) was a Soviet theater and film actress, pop artist, master of imitation of children's speech. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1970). In the sources there are various dates of birth of Rina Zelenaya; all agree only that she was born in Tashkent. She studied at a real school, when her father, Vasily Ivanovich Zeleny, was transferred from Tashkent to Moscow, Ekaterina entered the von Derviz Gymnasium in Gorokhovsky Lane. In 1919 she graduated from the Moscow Theater School. At the same time, she married lawyer Vladimir Blumenfeld, but they soon broke up due to dissimilarity of characters. Her teachers were Illarion Pevtsov, Nikolai Radin, Maria Blumenthal-Tamarina. She started on the stage as a professional singer, but then completely devoted herself to a theatrical career. She worked in theaters (since 1921) "Balaganchik" (Petrograd), "Mole" (Odessa)[, "Don't Cry" (Moscow).

In 1924, she became an actress of the Moscow Satire Theater. Since 1928, he joined the troupe of the Theater of Reviews at the House of Printing. In the 1930s, she performed on the stage with stories about children, worked on the radio. Her repertoire includes poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky, Agnia Barto, Samuel Marshak, Sergei Mikhalkov. During the Great Patriotic War, she participated in front-line artistic brigades, for which she was awarded the Order of the Red Star in 1944.

In 1981, Rina Zelenaya wrote an autobiographical book "Scattered Pages", addressed to a wide range of readers. The book includes a description of the creative world in which the actress lived, with whom her fate brought her and how it affected her as a creative person. The book contains such personalities as Arkady Raikin, Sergey Mikhalkov, Lyubov Orlova, Korney Chukovsky and many others. With her unique memorable voice, Rina Zelenaya voiced many cartoons.

Rina Zelenaya has always been very frivolous about her awards. "If I am rewarded, it will certainly be 40 minutes before death," she laughed. And so it turned out. On April 1, 1991, the President of the USSR issued a decree awarding Rina Zelenaya the title of People's Artist of the USSR, but on the same day, a few hours later, Rina Vasilyevna died of a malignant tumor. These documents were not allowed to move. She lived in Moscow in a former apartment building of the First Russian Insurance Company (Kuznetsky Most, 21/5 — Bolshaya Lubyanka, 5/21). She was buried in Moscow, at the Vvedenskoye Cemetery, next to her husband, academician of architecture Konstantin Tikhonovich Topuridze.